{"id":4857,"date":"2014-01-10T19:44:28","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T01:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=4857"},"modified":"2014-01-10T19:44:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T01:44:28","slug":"what-is-the-gospel-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/what-is-the-gospel-coalition\/","title":{"rendered":"What is The Gospel Coalition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps you have been around DSC for a while and you&#8217;ve asked yourself that question. What is <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/\">The Gospel Coalition<\/a> (TGC)? Is it a denomination? What is it?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s not a denomination. DSC is a local church without ties to any outside governing body.\u00c2\u00a0But we are happy to partner with other like-minded churches here and abroad for the sake of the gospel, and that&#8217;s what TGC helps us do. It&#8217;s a network of pastors and churches committed to the gospel and to its spreading. This network is grounded in a few Foundation Documents, including a Confessional Statement and a Theological Vision for Ministry. <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/about\/who\">Click here<\/a> to read both.<\/p>\n<p>TGC has a rich\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/\">website<\/a>, which\u00c2\u00a0serves the broader church with\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/\">articles<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0on cultural and theological issues,\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/book-reviews\/\">book reviews<\/a>, a\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/resources\/topic-index\">sermon and resource catalogue<\/a>, and a web hub for\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/conferences\">TGC conferences<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and TGC&#8217;s global missions effort,\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/io\">International Outreach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Albuquerque, since Ryan is a <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/resources\/name-index\/ryan_kelly\">council member<\/a> for TGC, DSC regularly hosts meetings for\u00c2\u00a0a network of area pastors who are part of <a href=\"http:\/\/tgcalbuquerque.com\/\">Albuquerque&#8217;s TGC Chapter<\/a>. They meet to pray, discuss Scripture, and offer help to one another in the work of ministry.\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tgcalbuquerque.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to check out the chapter&#8217;s new website. And, of course, DSC&#8217;s annual theology conference, <a href=\"http:\/\/clarusabq.com\/\">Clarus<\/a>, is also a TGC regional conference and hosted in partnership with Albuquerque&#8217;s chapter.<\/p>\n<p>Enough text. Here are two videos to help put this partnership in context for you, the second of which was <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/tgc\/2014\/01\/09\/the-gospel-coalition-historical-anomaly\/\">recently published<\/a> at the TGC Blog and features Ryan Kelly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Founding TGC council members answer the question, &#8220;What is The Gospel Coalition?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/26481665?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[RSS and email readers, <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/about\/who\/video\/\">click here<\/a> to view this video]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ryan Kelly discusses the historical background for a church network like TGC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/65324428?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[RSS and email readers, <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/tgc\/2014\/01\/09\/the-gospel-coalition-historical-anomaly\/\">click here<\/a> to view this video]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps you have been around DSC for a while and you&#8217;ve asked yourself that question. What is The&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/what-is-the-gospel-coalition\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4857"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4864,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857\/revisions\/4864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}